Lara Croft is a damsel in distress and a heroine, and the very gameplay itself reflects this.

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Lyra is a fearless little preteen damsel, who does not like even the suggestion that she might ever be a damsel in distress.

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Fortunately, this particular story is not a damsel in distress trope.

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Many of these early silent films involved a damsel-in-distress telephone operator calling for help in the midst of a robbery.

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Never mind that she spends the first act being leered at by the villain mostly to make Tony Stark oh-so-jealous, never mind that she spends literally the entire second half of the film as a damsel-in-distress.

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It is a classic tale, the damsel in distress.

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We also have a brief scene between Sansa and Littlefinger, as he plots and plots some more and our damsel in distress hopes and wishes for a way to escape.

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Recently, a white knight rode in to rescue the damsel in distress.

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The damsel in distress with red lips and a cheating heart.

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